Public Enemy raps music, beliefs during show
By Jake Berg
tr-era <j News •
Flavor Mav got more requests
for a flash of his teeth or a
handshake than for Public Fn
emy songs
The Wad Haller of Public Fn
nmy, who are often credited
wiili bringing hip hop in rap,
si nod outside during a break of
their show al the FMC Ball
room Friday night, talking w ith
a surrounding group of adoring
fans asking for handshakes and
,i smile from tile gold toothed
rapper
Mav shadowed bv a body
guard nearly twice his size
grasped every hand claiming
he's a "people lover " He said
lie enjoyed getting out to meet
tile fans
"1 make an opportunity to,"
lie said "I don't just take an
opportunity
Mav turned and looked cock
eyed into a camera as its flash
went off
"If I'm looking at you like I'm
crazy, it's because I'm trying to
look crazy." he said to the pho
tographer
Flav's partner in rhyme.
Chuck U, was feeling less so
eial, preferring to watt bai k
stage before the Cultural I'o
-sponsored shoyv with the
'of the group Chuck's nor
mally deep, booming voice was
somewhat quiet as he rested
from a cold
Chuck, one of finish 's most
politically motivated lyricists,
didn't vote Flection Day PF
was in Vanc ouver, II C . open
mg for IJ2 licit don't take it
Chuck D (left) and Flavor Flav ot Public Enemy kept the crowd dancing lor more than two hours in the
EMU Ballroom Friday during their first visit to Eugene
us .1 sign that ho still doesn't
have an interest in polities
"I think we re a little better
off than we were a couple
weeks ago," Chuck said, in re!
erence to the unseating of in
cumbent President Ceorge
flush
Chuck said be w as glad to see
someone new in the White
House, but he said .in advan
tage to having Hush was th.it it
taught the nation a lesson, ol
sorts
"Dull— keeps vou oil votir
toes, he s.iid Before, it was
like. I know what I know so I
v all ' "
Don't ask I I.iv alioul politic s
he wild he's the <>ni\ one in
the group who doesn't i .ire
.itMlllt It
“1‘ollties never done nothin
tor I’lnvor I'liiv." lie s.iui
Public linemv. though, h.is
done plenty (or tin rap world
I'K w hose show w is .is pin s
ir .il .is its .11 mnvmi'd nickname
implies is regarded .is one ol
the reasons that rap has devel
oped into ni.ivbe the most doni
mating triusii al fori e today
Rap. whli h was virtually un
heard of (list wars ago. now
sells millions of alliums, hut
Chuck said he doesn't Isdteve
that rap had i hanged that much
since the group's first release.
Vn' Hum Huih I hi' Shun in
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run III hits < min' In r.i|i s
trrmv hi' Mini
( Inn k s.ilil In' w ,is gl.nl to srr
sumr i h.mgt's, though
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,i lot mow common mun musn
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Ournci- in tin' voting p urr
It's Mimtthing tii.it I highly
ri'spri I .nut apprri mli* In
s inl I know i Ini n1 people
Innk n|i In Its Ini gu ut.ini
Chuck i' •> hit more humble
than his energetic partner He
said he gives more credit to
Kim DMt , wite brought r.i|> to
the public's .ittenttoli with their
i 1111 i i ! \ e [ osm t th "s Walk
I I s V\ i\
I’li garnered similar notice
Inst year when thev teamed
with \nthrav lor i version of
the r.ip group's bring the
Noise A lour with the speed
met.il re k. r s brought I’l. to ‘s.i
:■ :n in Oc tuber of t‘t'11 the hist
time .1 I’l. tour came through
(fregon
After i date in Portland last
rimrsdav night w Inc h I’l.
Iirsi plavc d in An ;ust of t<eit)
the group made its dehut v Is
it to lingerie. playing to a sold
nit and enthusiastu i.M11 It.ill
tHiin c rowd
In hetWe'en t’t. staples \\ ! |
ome to the I errordome. '< I I
is < |oki and I Igllt the I’ow
I. ( hui k and ! lav urges! the
rowd to battle- what thev
ailed the- m.i|or proble ms m
is le tV sen h .Is homele ssness,
'dm ation and rac ism
Mlfiough I lav was most ot
i II s i- i n shaking his
In .alloc keel hair or waving Ins
lands in tin air Iroin Ills posi
a on on lop of a speaker, lie etn
lhasi/ed the t n t|M >r I a m . of teal
ling r.u ism
t.rid rac ism. saiel I lav with
i gray top hat on Ins head ami
in uversui'd watch around his
us k l.i't -• put an end loll
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